activities in Society
Dean at Wayne U.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis H. Moyer (Carol Jacobson) are now
residing at Stratford Villa Apartments in Oak Park. Mr. Moyer
has completed his tour of duty with the United States Army.
Mr. Herschell S. Blitz, of Mendota Ave., has returned home
after spending a two year tour of duty in the United States Navy.
Mr, Blitz served aboard the U.S.S. Willard Keith. His tour
extended the Caribbean, Mediterranean and anti-submarine duty
in the North Atlantic area.
The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Rubin
Schneider, of 4052 Collingwood, will be celebrated at a reception
given Sunday by their children at the Jewish Home for the Aged.
The couple were married in Poland . and have been residents
of Detroit since 1920. They have three sons, Martin, Thomas
and Jack, and five grandchildren.
Sailing this coming Tuesday aboard the SS Constitution,
Mildred Goldman will spend a month in Europe and Israel.
Mr. Raymond J. Waxman, who will leave in September for a
two year stay in Honolulu on a fellowship from the University of
Hawaii, will be feted at - a bon voyage party Sunday by his
parents, the Morris L. Waxmans, of Burt Rd. Mr. Waxman is a
recent graduate of Wayne State University and will obtain his
masters degree in speech pathology.
People Make News
GARY BERTINI, well-known
Israel conductor and composer,
is coming to the United States
to conduct the final concert of
the 1959 Washington Square
Outdoor Chamber Music Con-
certs in Washington Square
Park, New York, on Sept. 7. He
will remain in this country un-
til the end of November when
he leaves to fulfill a concert
engagement in Milan, Italy
with the Orchestra Alessandro
Scarlatti.
* * *
Prof. K. S. SPIEGLER, of
the chemistry department of
the Israel Technion, has been
elected chairman of an inter-
national conference on the
nuclear applications of ion ex-
change to be hosted by the
I Our Letter Boxl
WJC Resolution
on Jewish Day School
Oak Ridge, Tennessee National
Laboratory this summer. The
conference, to be held in a
small town near Oak Ridge,
will be restricted to 100 top
international nuclear and phy-
sical chemists from all parts
of the world and will last for
a full week in order to assure
a full exchange of information
and ideas.
* * *
The appointment of Harold
P. Manson as director of public
relations of the American
Friends of the
-Hebrew Uni-
versity was an-
nounce dby
Daniel G.
Ross, presi-
dent of AFHU.
Manson was
formerly exec-
utive vice-
chairman and
head of public
informa-
tion for the
Zionist Organ-
ization of
America. From
1944 to 1948
he occupied ,a
prominent role
Manson
in winning the
support of American public
opinion for the establishment of
the State of Israel. He also
served as a Middle East cor-
respondent for the Overseas
News Agency.
Editor, The Jewish News:
I am writing to correct an
error of fact in the JTA tele-
type wire about the World
Jewish Congress 'which ap-
peared in your issue of Aug.
14. It stated that the Congress
declared the Jewish day school
as the "fundamental instru-
ment for Jewish survival."
No such resolution or state-
ment committing the World
* * *
Jewish Congress to the idea
Prof.
JOEL
L. LEBOWITZ
of the Jewish Day School was
recorded at . the Stockholm of Manhattan and Prof. LEON
sessions. All that was done in EHRENPREIS of Brooklyn have
this direction was the passage been appointed to the faculty of
of a resolution expressing sat- Yeshiva University's Graduate
isfaction over the recent School of Mathematical
growth of Jewish day schools. Sciences.
There was, however, no enact-
ment of any official approval Blueprints Call for
of the Jewish day school idea
by the World Jewish Congress. City of 60,000 at
Sincerely yours,
Eilat Resort Area
DR. - LEON FRAM
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Am-
* * *
bitious plans for development
Editor's Note: The text of of Eilat, Israel's port on the
the World Jewish Congress' Gulf of Aqaba, into a city of
cultural commission's "Draft 60,000 flanked by two major
Resolution — Jewish Day tourist resort areas were under
Schools," which was adopted study this week by the town
by the WJC Plenary, reads as planning committee of the Min-
follows:
istry of the Interior.
"The Fourth Plenary Assem-
Prof. Luigi Piccinato, noted
bly of the WJC regards Jewish Italian town planner, provided
schools as the fundamental in- in the blueprints for three
strument for Jewish survival major functions for the port
in the Diaspora, and, there- city—an enlarged port giving
fore, calls upon Jewish com- Israel better access to the East
munities everywhere to provide through the Gulf of Aqaba and
sufficient financial means for the Red Sea, as the administra-
their establishment, mainten- tive seat for the southern Negev
ance and development.
area, and as a trade and indus-
"The Fourth Plenary Assem- trial center.
bly notes with satisfaction the
His blueprints also provided
increase since the previous for two tourist areas occupying
Plenary Assembly in the num- the two main beaches south and
ber of Jewish day schools and northeast of the city. A feature
in the number of pupils receiv- of these areas would be arti-
ing full-time Jewish education, ficial lagoons to be used as
including modern Hebrew."
swimming pools.
More Than One Switch
Was Pulled in New York
When the lights went out at
the Manhattan office of the
New- York Guild for the Jewish
Blind, a result of the electric
power f a i l u r e Monday, 200
blind persons led 70 sighted
workers out of the pitch dark
building.
Dr. William L. Blockstein,
24100 Seneca, Oak Park, has
been named assistant to the
dean and assistant professor of
pharmacy at Wayne State Uni-
versity.
Dr. Blockstein, who has been
administrative assistant to the Our classified ads get results.
dean of the University of Pitts -
burgh School of Pharmacy, is
MRS. BYRON WEIS
Brenda Lee Barak, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Robert
Barak, of W. Seven Mile, was
given in _marriage to Byron
Herbert Weis in a candlelight,
double-ring ceremony Thurs-
day in Temple Israel. The bride-
groom is the son of Dr. and
Mrs. Sidney R. Weis, of Chicago.
The bride, a fourth year stu-
dent of medical technology at
the University of Michigan,
and the bridegroom, a senior
in law, were wed by Rabbi M.
Robert- Syme and Cantor Jacob
H. •onenklar.
The new Mrs. Weis chose a
gown of ivory silk with a seed-
pearl embroidered Alencon
bodice and train, accented by a
Juliet cap with ivory silk il-
lusion veil. She carried her
Sunday school Bible covered
with cascading baby orchids
and stephanotis.
Attending the bride were
matron of honor Mrs. Edmund
Supowit and bridesmaids Myrna
Lightstone, Mrs. Richard Mitch-
ell and the bride's sister, Mrs.
Donald Herring.
Mr. Weis had as his best man
J. Peter Barak, the bride's
brother. His ushers were Dr.
Julian S. Rosenthal, Harold
Stein, of Chicago, and Burt
Ross, also of Chicago.
Following the reception dur-
ing which strolling Musicians
played on stringed instruments,
the couple left on a honey-
moon trip through Canada and
the eastern seaboard of the
United States.
a graduate of the University of
Pittsburgh where he received
all three of his degrees.
Dean Stephen Wilson, of
Wayne State's College of Phar-
macy, indicated that Block-
stein's duties would include ad-
vising and counseling as well as
working on professional com-
mittees. He will also aid in al-
umni affairs and assist in public
relations.
Dr. Blockstein is a member of
the American Pharmaceutical
Association, Alpha Zeta Omega
Pharmaceutical Fraternity, the
American College Public Rela-
tions Association, the Society of,
Sigma Xi and several other
groups.
Dr. Blockstein and his wife,
Liesl, are the parents of two
children, David and Susan.
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Julian Barit Joins
Mass. Mutual Firm
Julian Barit, a Wyandotte
businessman for 15 years, has
become affiliated with Massa-
chusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Co., at 1680 National Bank
Bldg., it is announced by Frank
Howland, CLU, general agent
for the company.
Barit, of 4011 Norfolk, will
specialize in business life in-
surance, a field in which he is
most familiar because of his
previous business interests.
A member of Temple Israel,
Barit is a past president of the
Merchants Association of Wy-
andotte. He presently serves as
scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop
515, affiliated with the Adas
Shalom Synagogue.
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Brenda Barak Weds Name Dr. Blockstein
Bryon Herbert Weis Assistant Pharmacy